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SANTA CLAUS, Ind. — The jolly, chubby, bearded man leans back and lets out a belly laugh so deep it shakes the stuffed elves hanging on the nearby tree. He's sitting in a large red armchair beside a fireplace at the back of the Christmas Store in Kringle Plaza — near the intersection of Christmas Boulevard and Holiday Road. And of all the requests he has taken this month, the one soliciting his opinion on Bears quarterback Jay Cutler registers as most surprising. Thus the hearty chuckle from the one and only Santa Claus in Santa Claus, Ind. "People come through here for all sorts of reasons," he says. "And every so often, somebody just needs to know what...

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